Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Georgia Senate runoff: Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign
Arizona election results delayed until after weekend, Maricopa officials say
Red wave after all? GOP winning popular vote by wide margin despite incongruous results
Federal Judge blocks Biden’s student loan forgiveness
LA drops charges against Konnech CEO over storing data on Chinese servers
US Families Have Lost $7,400 in Income Due to Inflation, Heritage Foundation Says
Florida ranks first in U.S. for attracting and developing skilled workforce
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Arizona election results delayed until after weekend, Maricopa officials say”
Shocking!!!
“Look, those ballots said “Lake” on them. I just thought that’s where I was supposed to drop them off.”
/Arizona election official
“That’s right. Kari them to the Lake”
“I mean, how else am I supposed to interpret this?”
1969: We put a man on the moon.
2022: We can’t count pieces of paper.
It makes me question the first statement.
2001: A Space Odessy was just a cinematic test run for the “real deal”.
/adjusts tinfoil jockstrap
In 1492 an Italian organized a voyage across the Atlantic.
It’s because Columbus didn’t wait around for the election results. He was a man of action.
This guy is claiming Kelly already won.
Still too premature. There’s about 600,000 ballots left and they are the type that are very R friendly. Lake will definitely win, Masters has a narrow chance, but still a chance.
It seems like Masters would become my third liked politician, so I am holding out hope. Wasserman is usually pretty good, though with all of the shenanigans going on in AZ it does seem a bit early to call it.
This goes to the claim I’ve heard that they are taking so long in Maricopa Co. because they are picking out the blue votes and reporting those first. All the media will say Kelly won, and the remaining votes will be trashed as irrelevant, even if it would have given Masters the win. Those extra votes will be accidentally incinerated within the hour of the media calling the race for Kelly.
They can get away with a lot but I don’t see that happening.
They need time to steal it.
Turned out the Chinese already had all that data from multiple other US sources, so no crime.
“This would be magical”
So replace creepy porn lawyer with golem? Their party could benefit from better aesthetics.
Doesn’t matter, the NPCs will literally vote for a dead man with a “D” after his name.
In defense of those people in New Jersey, I voted for Dennis Hof after he died here in NV.
(He also won, btw)
Hey, that was actually PA that voted for the dead guy. In NJ, the dead people vote.
Jersey, PA, it’s all the same from here
True, but the NPC’s don’t decide Presidential elections. If Hillary Clinton was remotely fuckable she probably would have won.
Also, the dead will literally vote for and NPC with a “D” after his name.
So the lump contains the chem?
“Chemical lump” is the name of my new band.
They are so fucked.
Not excited with whatever is coming for Michigan. Assuming we’ll have gun control things (current gun policy is annoying, but not particularly restrictive), probably something union related, and I’m expecting something from the rainbow coalition.
But Whitmer said that Michigan would be stealing jobs away from Ohio because of abortion.
How did they re-elect that witch after covid?
What do you mean? Her draconian actions obviously saved tens of thousands of lives!
I want to be scared!
As this election showed us, most people liked the lockdowns. DeWine cruised through the primary and easily won here in Ohio as well.
Unfortunately, this is true.
I think you are misreading this. What this election has shown me is that we need to rethink letting women that are unmarried and see government as their sugar daddy have the vote….
Good luck putting that genie back in the bottle.
We could achieve much the same result by disallowing people on welfare of any sort to vote, or by only allowing property owners and honorably discharged veterans to vote.
Telling people on the dole that they are not going to be allowed to vote for more dole makes sense to me.
I wish I knew. She did have something like 12x as much campaign money due to some fundraising shenanigans, which definitely didn’t hurt her.
I don’t see much advertising, but I couldn’t avoid Whitmer ads and didn’t see a single Tudor ad.
You get what you choose. Good and hard…
Who wouldn’t want to mimic the success stories of California and New York?
Meanwhile, the GOP are consoling themselves that they flipped 4 House seats in NY* and the Dems lost their supermajority in the state assembly and senate. Savor the small victories, I guess.
*Thanks entirely to the obvious gerrymandering that was struck down in favor of a more “competive” map.
“competitive”, even
Those 4 seats might be the margin that flips the House. Looks exceedingly close – apparently the pro-abortion messaging prevented the shellacking the Ds so richly deserved.
I’m not getting why the pre-election polling revealed none of this.
One theory I read placed most of the blame on early voting and the GOP’s failure to campaign with that in mind. They said early voting will never go away, and the GOP must deal with it since they helped usher it in during the plaguedemic.
I say nuts to that. Early voting is bullshit.
Mail-in voting is the culprit. Much shenanigans. The GOP is a relative dinosaur at figuring out how to game the voting market.
Georgia and Florida both cleaned up their voting issues and don’t have the problems you see elsewhere (PA, ARIZ most notably)
I think this is a big part of it. The Dems have found a way to get people who normally wouldn’t get off their ass to go vote, to cast a ballot for them. And since these are sent in so early, there hasn’t been any campaigning or debates. Fetterman’s debate should have sunk him, but by then his margin of victory had already sent in their ballots.
Barnes talks about this a lot.
Democrats constantly bombard likely Democrat voters with GO VOTE
Republicans constantly bombard likely GOP voters with GIVE ME MONEY
“The Dems have found a way to get people who normally wouldn’t get off their ass to go vote, to cast a ballot for them.”
I postulate that they have found an even bigger solution than just ballot harvesting en masee: they request the ballots, fill them out, then on occasion go ask the people the ballot belongs to to sign it (most of the time they don’t even bother with that). It allows you to get anywhere from a 2-10% bump in your count. You couple tat with another 2-15% bump from the partisan media coverage, and you have some serious difficulty overcoming the cheating.
“Barnes talks about this a lot.
Democrats constantly bombard likely Democrat voters with GO VOTE”
Bullshit.
Democrats send out “HELP SEND MONEY!” panic emails every time they can gin up some controversy in the news. Juicy Smolliet, Noose in the barn, Paul Pelosi and his gay hammer guy, Team red says something mean, PUTIN!, and so on. Constantly.
Where team blue have the massive advantage in the get out the vote effort is the fact social media and the news allow them to scare their voters that otherwise would just check out to, at a minimum, help them do ballot harvesting and otherwise go vote so the KKK doesn’t take over the country and prevents them from moving towards making fucking children legal or something.
Also, the GOP needs to end the internecine warfare that is devouring the party. Until that happens, they are going to have issues.
Including Mass in there was a bit disingenuous – the only change was governor and Baker wasn’t a R in any meaningful sense.
It’s stasis quo.
Heh, I like that typo. Though stasis would be preferable to continuing decline.
The argument could be made that all these places were shitholes already, they have now just made it official.
People should get what they vote for. Let the games begin!
They also all start with M, so maybe there’s something to that?
Here in MA, we are fucked in the near term. I do, however, see a silver lining in this very dark cloud.
Maura Healey, the new governor, is an unhinged fascist who is a true believer of the green religion. She’s also very incompetent. The new media, being enemies of the people, have generally protected her by blaming her shortcomings on others. That can only take you so far, though.
In coming months, we are going to have power shortages. People can no longer heat their homes. Being a green theocrat, she isn’t going to allow a larger supply of energy. Being a fascist who is in the habit of blaming others for her mismanagement, she will attack energy companies, making economically ignorant arguments akin to Joe Biden’s demand that gasoline sellers lower their prices below market clearing levels or face additional taxation.
Every government, no matter how unpopular and violently repressive, is dependent on good will and obedience of the populace. It will be very easy to convince 20% of the population that their suffering is due to the oppression of the state. And it’s going to be much easier to convince the masses to disobey, to engage in smuggling and other forms of disobedience. It will drive ‘good’ cops out of the force. And as the state purges itself of decent actors it will become more oppressive, less capable of providing prosperity.
And this discontent will make people more receptive to the revolutionary message that fascism is bad, that authoritarianism in the name of economic security and freedom provides neither, and that free markets and permitting people to live according to their consciences leads to improved harmony and human flourishing.
We just have to keep pounding the message home.
I encourage everyone to sign up for Alex Epstein’s mailing list, https://energytalkingpoints.com/. I encourage everyone to use the arguments he broadcasts to your coworkers and friends judiciously and calmly. The arguments won’t instantly convert anyone, but through repetition will eventually wear them down.
We need to be encouraging contempt for the government and encouraging people to evade or ignore its edicts.
We are better positioned to build mass movements opposed to fascism and authoritarianism than at any point in history, so we shouldn’t be downhearted. Yes, it’s bad, but not hopeless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUhlRoBL8M
Sadly the left has taught that fascism is the opposite of what it is for the last eighty years.
A friend of mine has been trying to sell his house in Holland MI for over two yet now. He’s asking about 70% of what mine would sell for here in Idaho. If his was here it would be worth twice what mine is.
He must have it priced incorrectly. I live in Holland and I just sold my house in August in 3 days for $5000 over asking price. Anything decent here in the 200k to 500k range has had multiple offers for the past year.
The last three have been hard blue for quite a while. Michigan is the only one that’s about to get railed.
– some dead white guy.
“Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.”
/Sadly remembers nickel candy bars
Yeah. When the money is just a piece of paper it quickly loses value.
Why aren’t gold prices through the roof right now?
Huh. By the time I was a kid the only thing you could buy for a nickle was a piece of Bazook Joe bubblegum.
*Bazooka
The little comic strips that came with Bazooka Joe gum were some of the stupidest things ever printed.
Hey, they did give us the character Mort, who wore his turtleneck over his chin.
Repackaging FTW.
/Sadly remembers 1 oz. candy bars.
I don’t remember nickel candy bars, but I remember $.20 candy bars w/o tax. Then I remember $.25 candy bars and they started taxing them. That was when my dad explained “sin tax” to me. That was the beginning of creating a libertarian.
“US Families Have Lost $7,400 in Income Due to Inflation, Heritage Foundation Says”
Only $7.4?? The average family must be poorer than I thought.
They are now.
Georgia Senate runoff: Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign
I’m sure it’s all from instate supporters and not out of state, monied interests attempting to buy the election.
Arizona election results delayed until after weekend, Maricopa officials say
Voters experienced issues with Maricopa County’s tabulator machines, with one polling worker revealing that around 25 percent of ballots were being rejected.
No matter the outcome, this election is illegitimate.
What, you think an election wherein the sitting secretary of state responsible for certifying the governors election is also the leading candidate for governor, in which the largest county in the state had 20% of their voting machines malfunction on election day and didn’t keep polls open to compensate for it and allow eligible voters to cast their ballot, and the results are still not in 3 days later with a 25% rejection rate on ballots is somehow anything other than honest and upright?
I think that’s normal for Belarus and is becoming so for the USA.
Anybody remember those Boca Burgers that just flew off the shelves 25 years ago? And yet just about 5 years on the dot ever since, there’s some new billion dollar company that’s finally going to succeed selling fake meat to omnivores.
I remember them. I don’t think I’ve ever knowingly eaten either. I did have a friend who’s wife is vegetarian (so he is most of the time by default) that the Trader Joe’s soy chorizo is decent, but why would I buy fake chorizo when I can buy real chorizo for the same price?
For church summer camp one year we rented a facility owned by Seventh Day Adventists, and they would not allow any meat to be served at the facilities (even staffed and operated entirely by us). That was the first and last time I ever tried a Boca burger. Didn’t finish it. Ate 2 bags of sunflower seeds instead.
You have treasure in heaven, Sir.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrjiJp8zr5Y
“A
wishwoke sandwich is the kind of a sandwich where you have two slices of bread and you wish you had some fakemeat”Was not disappointed.
“What do you all want for nothing…a rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrubber biscuit?
“Anybody remember those Boca Burgers that just flew off the shelves 25 years ago?”
Then they went way up in price.
If God wanted us to not eat cows he would’ve made them faster.
Deer are pretty quick, bro.
Bullets are quicker.
Don’t shoot at running deer.
The Boca Burger was a commercial version of the traditional hippy bean and grain burger. It knew it’s place and didn’t try to be anything better than it was.
The Morningstar veggie chicken nuggets and patties are decent.
Fetter man will be President in 2024, and when Americans get acclimated to that, an actual muppet will be President in 2028. Probably the Swedish Chef, with Beaker as his VP.
I’d totally vote for Beaker.
This man is a prophet!
“Bork bork bork borken bork!”
“The White House today clarified President’s Swedish Chef’ statement earlier today….”
ANIMAL!
Animal is the Secretary of State.
AP
International relations were strained when the American Ambassador bit the ambassador of Ukraine on the leg, then chased a translator down the hallway, shouting, “Woman! Woman!” without first determining the person’s gender identity.
Leave me out of this.
I would vote for that ticket, without hesitation. Bork bork bork!
There will be no voting in 2028. It will just be announced that the Swedish Chef is the new President.
Don’t blame me, I voted for Statler and Waldorf.
I look forward to it!
https://youtu.be/VEMWyBWw0cA
The country may have experienced a red wave after all. It just didn’t translate into the electoral outcomes that have historically accompanied major political shifts — and after the initial wave of instant narratives extemporized by pundits on election night, close observers are now just beginning to dig for the reasons underlying the model-shattering disconnect.
Republicans are currently winning the national popular vote for the House in Tuesday’s midterm elections by a large margin, according to the latest data from the Cook Political Report.
The steal is targeted.
Duh.
“It’s not a steal; it’s just that all the red voters moved out of blue states.”
Wait, it’s the R’s turn to talk about the beloved popular vote president?
This. Aggregated popular vote means nothing. You win on the margin, on the swing seats, not by running up the vote in districts where one party isn’t represented on the ballot at all.
“The four states that have taken both legislative chambers and the governorship under Democratic control are Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland and Massachusetts.
But even with Democratic gains, Republicans still will control more states and more total legislative seats. Republicans entered the election with full control of both legislative chambers and the governor’s office in 23 states, compared to 14 for Democrats, with the rest divided.”
WTF, Minnesota?
Large urban areas control MN
Large urban centers control every state where they exist, unfortunately. Why living in closer proximity to other people makes city dwellers’ brains shut down has always been a mystery to me.
Ohio has fought against that trend. While the major cities are deep blue, everywhere else in the state is red, and outvote the cities.
Cleveland and Cincinnati dying to some extent has helped that.
I’m with you. So much has been written on that and I have seen no convincing arguments as to why big cities always go blue.
It makes a lot more sense to have a powerful, intrusive government when your neighbors leave their trash five feet from your front door, the apratment above you won’t stop playing their damn music at 4:00 in the morning and a gang of yutes has taken over the street corner?
Remember, it was the issue of next-door neighbors not shovelling their sidewalks in winter that caused “anarchist” and noted horrible person Nikki to demand government coercion.
Lol, I remember that.
Going by county in MD it would be 16 R to 7 D.
Rudy Perpich looks pretty good compared to what you’ve got today.
Rudy was a ranger, from the range. Maybe a socialist but a little bit of realist had seeped in.
The Rassler was mostly OK, sent us some extra rainy day money back but then gave the TC a light rail to allow inner city people access to the Mall of America with a free ride..
The only state (and D.C.) that went for Mondale in ’84 and people are still surprised when frozen CA does this shit. They were to enact CA emissions standards in 2020 but that got frozen out by Convid. You can bet that’s coming fast and hard now. No Balls Walz loves him some CA politicking.
In their defense, Mondale was the hometown boy. But yes, I worry for my Minnesoda friends what King Walz and his minions are about to unleash over there.
*searches for missile silos for sale in Norf Dakoda*
“In this case, the HEROES Act — a law to provide loan assistance to military personnel defending our nation — does not provide the executive branch clear congressional authorization to create a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program,” Pittman’s ruling said.
Despite the court’s decision, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the program would “move full speed ahead.”
Who does that judge think he is, telling the President what he can do?
Why couldn’t she just say “He’s made his ruling, now let him enforce it”?
Might as well have, we learned a few days ago that the tiny minority of people who would even recognize the quotation would support it anyway.
Well sure, because the occasional tepid adherence to some of the constitution’s actual words and meaning makes this court illegitimate.
This would be magical
He couldn’t be any more embarrassing or incompetent than the current alleged president. Plus there is entertainment value.
Arizona election results delayed until after weekend, Maricopa officials say – this is all so very strange to me. I never remember an election in Romania where the results were not final in at most 48 ours. Or anywhere in Europe for that matter, italy, france, england etc
The place that always cheats for democrats needs more time to figure out how to make the cheat look legit? And this time it is especially difficult because too many people are watching.
What are they gonna do though?
Are the no reporters on the ground here?
They could pull a Gregoire and locate a bunch of ballots locked in a storeroom of one of the most deep blue precincts in the state.
Or they could just force the observers out, lock the doors, and emerge later with radically different vote counts than existed prior to the observers being present.
Give ’em the ol’ Rossi rope a dope
It’s never happened in US history until the last two elections either.
When Kari Lake wins, her first focus needs to be copying Florida.
the same for the Republican governor of Nevada.
State governments in Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland and Massachusetts under Democratic control
You get what you vote for.
No, you get what slightly more than half of your neighbors vote for.
US Families Have Lost $7,400 in Income Due to Inflation, Heritage Foundation Says – inflation is good for you, don;t you know. income schmincome
Oh, the income is still there but the value (outcome) has certainly depreciated
Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown is taking a more muted near-term outlook on his business amid rising competition in plant-based meats and an inflation-zapped consumer trading down to cheaper proteins.
If meat is so bad why do you cuntes try to make other things taste like it?
Always this. Just eat a salad.
I’ve never had one, but how are black bean burgers? That is the only option I could see myself eating and possibly enjoying*.
*but not more than a meat burger.
Black bean burgers are OK in some circumstances. I have eaten them. They do not pretend to be meat. So as such I could just them as a new type of food.
When I go veggie I prefer the big portabellas on buns with swiss.
I got a free sample of fake chicken bits. I put them in some nachos, figuring if they tasted bad I could mask the flavor with other goodies. They tasted OK. BUT – looking at the so-called nutritional contents – holy shit. The thing is full of enough sodium to take down all the fish in a lake, and a bunch of other nasty stuff. I’m no nature boy, but this stuff is not health by anyone’s metric.
Florida ranks first in U.S. for attracting and developing skilled workforce – whyyyy? the weather is horrible and there are hurricanes
Some people like the sun.
And a lot of people hate stupidity even more than hurricanes. And man, there seems to be a LOT of stupidity in the states people are fleeing from.
I like the sun, but not the humidity. I was considering Florida possibly for my next move, but the prices there have risen too much for me to snag anything anyway, and after living half my life in the Mojave desert, I really do think the humidity would be unbearable. I’m dreading Texas as it is (that’s still looking like where I’ll probably end up).
the weather is horrible
Agreed.
#megadittoes
Hurricanes would be less of an issue if insurance regulations discouraged beachfront development. I am reminded of this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
Classic.
Hey now! There’s also thousands of miles of swamps, alligators, an explosion in population of invasive pythons, flying insects large enough to carry away your small pet, mobile meth labs, Florida Man…what’s not to love?
I am am very enticed by Florida woman… She is limber and DTF.
Also a Florida 6 is like a Minnesota 9.
Happy Vet’s day to those that qualify.
Indeed! Several on my team are on vacation today. May they enjoy it.
I decided to save my time off so I can take the entire month of December of from work instead since I am working from home today anyway.
Ah shit, I forgot and now feel like a dick.
Don’t. Most people do.
Soon it will mark the official end of WWI – the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month.
ARMISTICE!
Thank me.
Veterinary Day is the last Saturday in April.
Seems legit.
A state judge overseeing the Sandy Hook case froze Alex Jones’ assets late Wednesday.
Alex Jones is only allowed to spend money on ‘ordinary living expenses’ according to the judge’s order.
“With the exception of ordinary living expenses, the defendant Alex Jones is not to transfer, encumber, dispose, or move his assets out of the United States, until further order of the court,” Judge Barbara Bellis said in the one-page order.
I still fail to see where any damages occurred. Being a dick and saying stupid shit isn’t harmful.
I don’t get it either. This is a dark path we’re going down. Purely political punishment.
I remember when Ken White would mock people for suing for “butthurt in the first degree.” I can only imagine that he says that this is a totally justifiable verdict because shut up trumpalo insurrectionist!
Imagine no more.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/alex-jones-at-the-tower-of-babel
Ken White is still a hypocritical cunt.
This person has never listened to Alex Jones.
Ken White is fully in his groupthink bubble and has been for quite a while. Any claims he made previously to being open-minded are completely negated by his absolute commitment to TRUMP IZ THE DEBIL
Ken White just hated Bush the lessor, and everything else has been shit icing on a shit cake.
And all the retards want cake.
Ahh, good ol’ popehat. He was always a smug douche even back when he was sane, but holy fucking shit did he round the bend after Trump. It really is kind of unnerving just how fundamentally he broke some people. There were a lot of Republican and R-leaning small-l libertarians who bought into every wild conspiracy about Obama, but few whose entire approach to politics and morality were permanently upended.
/looks over the LittleGreenFootballs
Being a dick and saying stupid shit isn’t harmful.
But enough about the Sandy Hook families using their dead children for political gain.
It’s the financial gain that fill the garage w/new toys. Imagine the tail you would pull when you explain the name of the SS Muh Ded Son to some sea skanks.
“Georgia Senate runoff: Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign”
That’s the best person they could find in the entire state of Georgia?
Chase Elliott isn’t old enough yet.
I am starting to think having Fetterman in the senate will give us some seriously fun times and incredible meme moments that will make team blue look like asshats and government look about as competent as it really is.
He goes into the basement until January, then resigns on the advice of his doctors to focus on his recovery, and the Democratic governor of PA appoints somebody equally brain damaged, but able to articulate human speech.
That’s a lot of words to say Fetterman’s wife.
It will be interesting to see if the tradition of appointing a dead person’s spouse to their office gets expanded to cover appointing a mentally incompetent person’s spouse.
Why are you all so ableist?
I doubt it. I think she thinks she’s going to replace him. But, really, what leverage does she have?
She has tasted the fruit of the lump.
I suspect the plan was to replace him with his wife, but after she showed she wasn’t of much higher mental caliber than he was (although she did show some serious totalitarian bonna fides that should wet a lot of team blue panties) they might have to rethink it. Then again, if dead people and people in advanced stages of dementia/Alzheimers can hold positions, it’s a NO BRAINER!
Feinstein is still there and at this point she makes Lumpy look positively eloquent.
Alex seems to think that the media will somehow report things as they are.
It won’t matter if he’s in office or not. Look at Patty Murray – 30 years in the senate, never once went against the party on anything and isn’t known for anything either. Just and auto-D vote.
Yeah, memes are totally worth losing our rights…
How selling mince pies landed a pensioner in prison
Local residents reported Snelling to the police for the rule breach.
This. The panicdemic has shown how many people are willing to turn on their grandparents on the say-so of Big Brother. This sort of behavior was once held up as an example of the horrors of totalitarianism, now it is necessary for the greater good.
People have convinced themselves (without evidence) that they would absolutely be the family that hid Anne Frank, rather than the snitch that turned her in.
Local residents reported Snelling to the police for the rule breach.
Fuck those cunts.
Go fuck yourself.
BIDEN: “I’m prepared to work with Republicans. But the American people have made it clear: they expect Republicans to work with me as well. [..] If republicans try to walk away from the historic commitment we just made to deal with the climate crisis, I will not let that happen.”
Oh, I forgot. If R’s control congress and D’s control the presidency it time for unity/healing and cooperation. Anything less is obstruction which is tantamount to treason. The people have spoken.
Biden: Bipartisanship means democrats win…
Me: Tell Biden to fuck off and go smoke parmesan cheese with his bitch ass son.
:: checks watch ::
Yep, right on schedule.
Systemic racism is everywhere.
https://nypost.com/2022/11/11/lottery-accused-of-systemic-racism-after-powerball-jackpot-payout/
The piece also highlighted how stores selling lottery tickets are more likely to be located in poor communities of every state. The state money generated from the lottery sales often do not feed back into the communities, but rather into colleges and higher-income school districts.
The well-off don’t need to hit the lottery to make ends meet? Who knew?
I guess schools don’t teach that 1 in 292M odds is not very good.
“Darkies are too stupid to understand probability.” – Antiracists and BIPOC allies
I don’t feel particularly bad for people who essentially pay extra taxes in order to buy a daydream.
Lotteries are taxes on the poor (and stupid)
“The state money generated from the lottery sales often do not feed back into the communities, but rather into colleges and higher-income school districts.”
Who the fuck’s fault is that? It couldn’t be that legislators who are in charge of this are being dishonest.
Also probably untrue. At least in California, the greatest spending per pupil is on the poorest diatricts, often leaving the wealthier diatricts to need fundraising events to make ends meet. But the teachers unions will always say otherwise, and a willing press just parrots what they say without bothering to even look at the data. Just like around here they’ve convinced people that the reason for the homeless tent cities in San Francisco are due to developers not being able to build enough luxury highrise condominiums with zero restrictions in overbuilt affluent bedroom communities.
It’s probably a good idea to stop marching BIPOC’s into the convenience stores at gunpoint to buy lottery tickets.
Biden/Fetterman 2024! It’s a no brainer!
*Sustained applause*
That’s good, I’m stealing it.
SBF
@SBF_FTX
1) I’m sorry. That’s the biggest thing.
I fucked up, and should have done better.
The full story here is one I’m still fleshing out every detail of, but as a very high level, I fucked up twice.
The first time, a poor internal labeling of bank-related accounts meant that I was substantially off on my sense of users’ margin. I thought it was way lower.
My sense before:
Leverage: 0x
USD liquidity ready to deliver: 24x average daily withdrawals
Actual:
Leverage: 1.7x
Liquidity: 0.8x Sunday’s withdrawals
Because, of course, when it rains, it pours. We saw roughly $5b of withdrawals on Sunday–the largest by a huge margin.
https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709166515310593
lol there are fuckups and there are fuckups
and there are other theories
https://twitter.com/CryptoJunkiesCO/status/1590984318301900800
So, actual fascism then.
“We have an enormous challenge before us to bring to scale new technologies and to harness the deeply capable capacity of private sector entrepreneurs in order to bring them to the table because without it, no government has enough money… we need everybody behind this.”
King Charles has made similar statements, that we need nations to pool their resources and raise a trillion dollars to combat climate change.
Kerry further promoted the WEF’s launch of its First Movers Coalition, which he said was “needed to create demand signals in the market where they didn’t exist, which takes boldness, it takes courage from these executives who have made the decision to be a part of this.”
Our elite have realized that their offspring are even dumber, lazier, and shameless than they are, and they desperately need to reshape society to give them hereditary control. The global reset is about telling the serfs that they will get a shinney and snazzy socialist system, where their elite will take care of them and they will need to neither own nor want for anything, while really enacting policies that will allow them to kill north of 5 billion people and make the rest of them live under serfdom akin to what existed in the middle ages.
If this is true then I better either be independent or elite.
Does anyone ever ask them why they want to kill the poorest people on the planet?
Cause man is a parasite sucking the blood out of poor Gaia!
“LA drops charges against Konnech CEO over storing data on Chinese servers”
Soros DA point out that they couldn’t hold him because this was a no-bod offense?
The closer we look at the COVID “vaccines”, the weirder they appear.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/wots-in-the-shots/
Grapheme oxide has some weird properties.
The Spectator is not a fringe publication.
It will be after they come for it for daring to make them look bad…
Might explain the bizarre clots morticians are pulling from corpses.
Looking and acting are two separate things. Now there are materials that react to EM stimulation by forming crystals and graphene oxide is apparently one of them, but there’s a couple of issues to consider.
What’s the incident power required in order to cause graphene oxide to react? The human body is a pretty good shield.
What’s the concentration level required? Graphene oxide in a vial is not the same as graphene oxide distributed throughout tissue.
I think it’s more likely that the toxicity profile of graphene oxide is of far more significance than this observed behavior.
The aforementioned friend’s girlfriend believes the graphene nanobots in the vaccine connect to the WEF via 5G signals and emit electromagnetic signals that can control our brain waves, and that’s why they deployed 5G just before the pandemic.
Now I’m not going to dismiss the theory on the grounds that it’s something that the government would never do. Because if they could I’m sure they would. But I am going to do the finger-on-the-lips-batshit-crazy-signal on technological grounds.
I’m convinced the 5G/vaccine nuttery is a “poisoning the well” psyop.
Same. It wouldn’t be the first time the three letter agencies had done it, we’ve got the receipts from the ’60s and ’70s. She 100% legitimately believes it though. I figured maybe she was just like some campy Art Bell C2C caller. But nope. Serious as a heart attack.
You might want to read this before you dismiss it so casually as nutter talk.
Serious scientific papers on “Intra-Body Nano-Networks” have been published and that research is ongoing.
DARPA has been leading the way.
Agreed on the acting =/= looking.
But grapheme oxide isn’t a good thing to have hanging around in your body tissue.
What, you don’t take a daily graphene oxide supplement?
Are the boosters daily now?
It does sound odd, I’m just not smart enough to really know what this means.
I am comfortable saying they don’t work and are unnecessary for most of the population.
This is misleading, because the vaccine ingredients have been published, and graphene oxide is not on the list.
I am not willing to say that its not in the vax just because its not on the official published list of ingredients.
I was thinking the same thing. I don’t know how it works for vaccines, but I know first-hand from being on the manufacturer side of medical devices that not all of the chemicals used in the manufacturing process are listed in the IFU documentation or inserts. You’d really have to pull the patent for the full list, and even then, chemicals can be abbreviated or lumped under more general headings.
Oxidized bulk carbon
That is NOT the complete list of ingredients. They have blacked out items on the FOIA results and the redaction is under the “proprietary” exemption from FOIA release. So, Pfizer is allowed to hide some ingredients by the fedgov’s reading of the FOIA statute – even during a “pandemic” for an EUA product – so you get some “stuff” that they’re not telling anyone about cuz Pfizer, FYTW.
Speaking. of which – I just got this in my email from ICENI’s substack.
https://iceni.substack.com/p/whats-really-in-the-shots?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
And, from my own cases, I can tell you that Most people in the US have been inoculated with an unlicensed (EUA) product – BNT162b2 – that the FDA allowed to be substituted in place of the licensed product COMIRNATY (purple cap). FDA did this without ever making the requisite statutory “interchangeability” determination under the applicable provisions of the PHSA (42 USC §262k). FDA allowed Pfizer to substitute BNT162b2 in place of the licensed product – to pretend that it was a “bioequivalent” under the statute – while COMIRNATY was removed from the US market on Aug. 23, 2021, the exact same day it was licensed.
COMIRNATY wasn’t available until the Comirnaty GRAY cap became orderable by the DoD in May-June 2022 – and that turns out to be almost entirely adulterated and mislabeled BNT162b2. (And some EUA bivalent vaccines, too, just for good measure). See our latest filing (ECF 50) this past Monday in Bazzrea, et al v. Mayorkas et al.
Sorry to tell everyone, but it’s been a giant fraud the whole way through and the entire planet has been fooled. Your FDA is owned lock, stock, and barrel by pharma. 42% of the FDA’s biologics enforcement/inspection budget comes from pharma user fees. The CDC itself owns over 50 patents worth a few billion from the drugs & biologics it regulates. That’s not a regulator – that’s a market participant with regulatory power, as far as I’m concerned.
our FDA is owned lock, stock, and barrel by pharma.
I’m with you Ozy, but would flip this. Pharma doesn’t own the FDA. The FDA owns Pharma.
So where is this time lapse video?
the formation of the crystals seems to be stimulated by electromagnetic radiation and stops when the slide with the vaccine is shielded by a Faraday bag.
So the vaxxed are going to get excellent 5G reception…
Hurricanes would be less of an issue if insurance regulations discouraged beachfront development.
Those beachfront mansions dissipate the force of the storm and protect properties farther inland.
Construction of Obama Presidential Center halted after noose found
What a caper. Was Bubba Wallace seen anywhere in the area?
Juicy Smolliet was here!
Boy that story smells of B.S.
The group said it is offering a reward of $100,000 for information that helps to find those responsible.
What, exactly, is the alleged crime here?
Wrongthink, of course.
So one of the group put the noose up, alerts them, collects the $100,000 and disperses it back to the group?
The horror, the horror….
The noose was hung by someone in the group.
/waits for his $100,000
Huh, no pictures of the offending item. An oversight, I’m sure.
It is MAGA country.
At the very least, I can believe that much. From all those white supremacist gangs who roam South Chicago, no doubt.
What Nixon found, and filmed, is bizarre to say the least. Inside a droplet of vaccine are strange mechanical structures. They seem motionless at first but when Nixon used time-lapse photography to condense 48 hours of footage into two minutes, it showed what appear to be mechanical arms assembling and disassembling glowing rectangular structures that look like circuitry and micro chips.
Nanobotz!
A friend of mine’s girlfriend has been saying that for about a year and a half. That’d be some shit if she turned out to be right. She’s still a fucking nutter, but a stopped clock and all that.
But I’m a Repooblican. ///SoyRepooblicano
Ana Navarro needs a Waaambulance
And I am Fabio, bitch..
“ThEy CHaNgED eLEcTIoN LaWS!!!!!”
Voting should be treated as a privilege. As such, we should make it more difficult. people should prove they are eligible and qualified to vote. This way elections have consequences where decisions are made by an informed electorate. People that just want power want voting to be as easy as possible so they can cheat cause the goal is not any kind of good government (in fact they prefer bad government), but just power.
“Lakeside Alliance remains committed to providing a work environment where everyone can feel safe, be their best self and is treated with dignity and respect.”
Odd; I don’t see anything about putting out any actual work product.
Yep, I asked that precise question once. HR lady glared at me.
Sounds like my place of business, where I am forbidden to be on-premises because I am unclean. Fear me, for I am legion!
I was set to go an advertising conference today but cannot because of work load.
I looked at the sessions — DEI, Mental health, Blackness in advertising, Woman-led companies.
Really nothing about the practice or craft itself. And I thought, why? Why not? And it occurs to me that only a handful of people are really good at the creative stuff while almost anyone or their brother can manage HR, or accounting, etc. So there’s more of them than there are of me. So it’s easy for them to spend time, effort, and capital on all of the other stuff around creative work. It captures more of their attention, and it’s easier for them to discuss and create programs around because they really do not understand what I do. At all.
Now, I am really interested in exploring ‘neglected’ communities for talent. Because, if you find someone good, that’s worth more than any actual DEI initiative.
To be fair around here landscapers DO like to park these things so they completely screw up traffic.
Today’s best of Idiots In Cars.
Bonus Dead Milkmen
One of the reasons I don’t miss the daily commute is the number of people I saw doing things other than paying attention to the road on streets and highways. From ladies doing their makeup to old dudes reading the newspaper. And all the idiots fidgeting with their phone. I am surprised shit like this doesn’t happen more.
One of many reasons I suffer the train going into NYC.
I feel your pain…
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Here’s your rec on a contractor
ROGGENTIEN ELECTRIC
620 E ADAMS ST MARENGO, IA 52301
roggelec@netins.net
319-642-5622
1. Mobile (Service), 9. GenOnly (Service), a. Residential Standby (Sales), d. PTO-2 Bearing (Sales), c. Portables (Sales)
Winco makes a lot of PTO generators, which are popular items in farm country. In other words, I don’t think you’ll ever not have somebody in Iowa who can service the genset.
thanks
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Because American elections are a joke.
The Chairman of Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors says there are still 400,000 votes to count and that it will be “early next week” before the “lion’s share” of votes are counted.
Not sure why everyone is laughing…
Good morning, Banjos!
Nobody wants gross fake meat
It is amusing seeing a picked over meat section and a completely stocked plant-based section. That shit is nasty. In addition to being highly processed and full of nasty oils and other garbage, they taste terrible. I’m actually surprised they haven’t tanked by now. I can’t recall which of the imposters it was, but one of them got in trouble for lying about the protein content.
But hey, gaia.
Godspeed
I wish I was more surprised. Both the Michigan pig and the MN dipshit are mass murderers, but I guess that’s not a disqualifying resume item any more.
Hold on to your wallets, kids.
I’m actually surprised they haven’t tanked by now.
You’re right that these companies are in deep shit. They were shells propped up by investors using cheap interest rates and not by consumer demand. No longer. Beyond Meat’s stock has crated something like 80% this year. Impossible Foods can’t fire employees fast enough to stay afloat.
When BK came out with the Beyond Whopper, Jugsy grabbed a couple to test.
I will admit it tasted fine- but not something Id pay for.
I found it to be greasier than actual beef.
Today’s best of Idiots In Cars.
In the good old days, pre-ABS, that car would probably be in there sideways.
Good luck out there Glibs.
Well, no cars to finance does make a finance arm a but superfluous.
My cars are very used and also very paid for.
Yup. The dudes making forecasts are predicting that we will be laying people off.
Sweet. I’m looking to upgrade my ride next spring. Hopefully the lack of demand drags down the prices a bit.
Cybernetic penile implants for trans men are a social justice imperative.
https://hub.jhu.edu/2022/11/04/sarah-hemminger-social-justice-for-engineers
Close enough.
No vibropulsing settings or G-spot/prostate seeking algorithms? This is not the Culture future I was promised.
Cybernetic Penile Implants
Band name, I assume?
he Doomcock of Doom is in the works
meanwhile on Mastodon, the basic libs who loved WHITE FRAGILITY and the radicals who pushed it on then are now busily turning social justice terminology against each other
may they enjoy the blessings of each other’s company
https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/1590855870682107904
I can’t for the life of me figure out what happens that the comment post early. I generally do ctrl c to copy the text ctrl v to paste and hit an enter to go to the new line where I usually copy the linik. But sometimes the comment just posts. Maybe I hit some key that posts on wordpress but I cannot figure it out
Depending on where the focus is in the browser, it may be the enter key.
anyway I hate it
Adam Curry has been shilling mastodon for years. Is it really the blue haven they think it is?
In the morning!
CEO of Alameda Research is a 28-year-old Harry Potter fan
https://www.efinancialcareers.com/news/2022/11/caroline-ellison-alameda-research-ftx-sam-bankman-fried
It’s a bad day and week for millennials in crypto. 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has already lost 94% of his fortune and is facing questions as to the probity of his actions after the Wall Street Journal reported that his crypto exchange, FTX, lent $10bn to his affiliated trading firm, Alameda Research. Constance Wang, the 28 year-old ex-Credit Suisse analyst running the day-to-day operations of FTX is presumably sharing the pain. Caroline Ellison, another 28-year-old SBF protégé already appears to be out of a job.
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Before joining Alameda as a trader in March 2018, Ellison spent 19 months as a junior trader at Jane Street after graduating from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 2016. In a podcast two years ago, Ellison explained that Jane Street was her first job out of college. A diehard mathematician and Harry Potter fan born of two economists, Ellison she hadn’t wanted to go into trading but “just didn’t really know what to do” with her life.
She was persuaded to join Alameda by SBF, who also previously worked for Jane Street. When she quit Jane Street, Ellison said she felt bad for staying such a short amount of time. However, this feeling quickly dissipated when she arrived at Alameda and discovered that she had “kind of more trading experience than a lot of Alameda traders,” anyway.
and from the opinions read on twitter
First of all to make investors whole we need to confiscate Stanford’s endowment. Stanford’s endowment is $36.3 billion so there will be plenty of money left over for EA causes like salting the earth there
I thought EA just destroyed beloved game franchises, I didn’t know they were salting the earth too.
Textbook fraud of depositors. What an incredible asshole.
well it is more fun when you are trading client money in a highly volatile market. This is why 100% reserve requirements should be necessary. But I am sure the solution will be a government controlled central bank for crypto 🙂
He is an asshole, but the #1 rule of crypto is not your keys, not your coins. Never leave coins on an exchange.
well if you trade you need to have some… Here one issue was FTT the native token which you had to own and stake in order to get reduced trading fees, and most traders fell for it, so to speak
If you trade you transfer back to the exchange when ready.
Was this guy not the second biggest donor to the democrats?
Yup
Yes. I linked somewhere above a twitter thread by the guy at some point there is this gem
“NOT ADVICE, OF ANY KIND, IN ANY WAY
I WAS NOT VERY CAREFUL WITH MY WORDS HERE, AND DO NOT MEAN ANY OF THEM IN A TECHNICAL OR LEGAL SENSE; I MAY WELL HAVE NOT DESCRIBED THINGS RIGHT though I’m trying to be transparent. I’M NOT A GOOD DEV AND PROBABLY MISDESCRIBED SOMETHING.”
lol
his parents
Joseph Bankman, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School
Barbara Fried, William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
should have taught the guy not to steal
I probably lost 500 bucks total in this shit
“If we think about biomedical engineering as a practice of problem-solving,” Hemminger says, “then health care inequity is probably the greatest problem in our lifetime.”
When you put it that way, directing unlimited resources to the “needs” of an infinitesimal segment of the population makes perfect sense.
Respect muh authoritah.
The kid is a dick, but he’s not wrong.
We’ve had two M1.2 class solar flares this morning already. They are erupting from Solar Spot AR3141, which is growing in magnitude and happens to be directly opposite Earth. AR3141 is unstable and has spawned a small “sunspot within a subspof.”
There is an increasing chance of an X class solar flare from that sunspot, which could cause geomagnetic disruptions on Earth as well as a little extra radiation to airline passengers and crew flying over the Earth’s poles.
So don’t be surprised if you experience some communications glitches.
Is this something I need to Faraday my backup drives for, or nah?
tin foil and a ground strap. You’ll be fine.
Especially after the grid collapses and the cannibalism ensues?
I was thinking of al foil pouch for the drive enclosure, inside two strainers zip tied together, inside my metal filing cabinet, if it comes to that.
*adjusts cosmic radiation focusing array*
The time has come for my superhero powers!
Missed opportunity to be the sassy solar weather woman:
“So don’t be surprised if you experience some communications glitches bitches!!!!”
I’ll be putting all of my critical electronics in the basement copper cage I keep for just such an emergency.
Contents:
1PC per decade from each of the last 30 years.
Ignition system replacement electronics for the top 10 vehicles from 1970-1990
Hard drives, hard drives, hard drives
A copy of selected Wikipedia pages of science, engineering, and history pages
A VHS, DVD, and CD player and all of the media I own
Tin foil hat plans and a roll of tin foil
bins of spare electronic parts and transistors
Light bulb and generator plans
Wizard coat, cape, hat, and wand
Wine sales in grocery made a comeback and has taken the lead in Colorado. Still too close to call. It made the run along with Boebert, but I think its actually from other places.
Where are you finding the counts?
google “election results co”, its a google inset to AP, click on ballot measures and expand to see more.
Yes 50.1%
No 49.9%
Thanks. Those are more up to date than the Post.
Happy to see that the income tax one passed so handily. Although I do wonder about the 35% of tards who voted against it.
Eh, 35% is pretty much minimum expected. Polis “supported” the tax cut, so it was going to pass.
My state house and US house are both red. My state senate is blue due to a perfect gerrymander.
The R won Larimer County (exluding Fort Collins, which is its own district) by 4800 votes out of 66000. He lost the part of Boulder County by 5500 votes out of 11000.
Maybe there isn’t an “R” part of Boulder County like there is here in Larimer, but that looks like a pretty strong D vote to stick into the district. I am pretty sure that is not Berthoud, which would make the most sense, as it even shares a school district with Larimer.
Yep, looked it up, Berthoud is in the 23rd district, the 15th (my district) gets the vast mountain area of Boulder. Looking at the map, there isn’t a horrible gerrymander going on. But it loops around and gets the south side of Boulder in that district. Looks fishy to me.
I’m in Jeffco which is all blue.
Is that like Golden/Westminster? I am still trying to figure all of the Denver suburb counties out.
Actually it starts way south of Conifer and includes Evergreen, part of Lakewood, Golden, Arvada and Westminster.
A lot of it is forest and open space, though.
I find the east suburb counties hilarious. They range from heavily populated Denver suburbs to Kansas border.
Okay, that was an exaggeration, Adams and Arapahoe don’t go that far east. But still, all their people are huddled on the western edge of the county.
Okay, its worse than I thought. Berthoud is in Larimer County (and a bit in Weld). I thought it was across the county border in Boulder County. That makes it worse, as they should have left all of Larimer ex FtC together.
So I call shenanigans.
On the other hand, sticking my part of Larimer County into the red 2nd US House district was pretty shitty too. That was a double incumbent protection move. Take a red section of Larimer and move it into a strong lean red district, making one district redder and on district bluer.
Good grief, still basically 50/50 and it looks like alcohol delivery is a no. From the same state that was proud to lead the way in marijuana legalization.
And legalized shrooms this time.
But Polis is like a dreamy, democrat Rand Paul!
/tos
‘Candidate Quality’ Doesn’t Matter When You’ve Got A ‘D’ Next To Your Name
This captures some of my sentiment immediately following the election as well.
Mittens was a shit candidate.
Yeah. Remember, Obamacare was inspired by a Massachusetts law called Romneycare. And the latter’s author was Mitt Romney, who impulsively proposed it to a bunch of aides as a way of creating something that would make him seem caring when running for national office.
Romney, of course, was a great leader, as evinced by Romney hiring a gay man as an aide, then firing him when he was outed as being gay, and then lying in a totally unconvincing way to try to explain himself after incontrovertible evidence was produced that Romney new the man was gay when he was hired.
There was no issue that Romney wasn’t on record as to being on both sides of.
It’s incomprehensible that, when faced with a MA progressive who’s only claim to be better than Obama was that he would drive the country into socialism at the speed limit rather than Obama’s pedal-to-the-metal approach, there was low enthusiasm for Romney.
His desperation to be a politician and continue on the family tradition oozed out of him.
He proved that when he ran for the Senate.
Mitt, you tried for the golden ring and missed. Retire and enjoy the fruits of your labors.
Second time he ran for the Senate.
Yes.
That’s the point though. The establishment heffalumps are already spinning the mid terms as a rationalization for pushing milquetoast candidates in the Romney mold because the MAGA candidates are just too extreme for voters. (Mind you, after cocaine Mitch wouldn’t support any candidates he didn’t hand pick)
Ignoring the DeSantis landslide.
That is only a relevant argument when you believe the vote counting process isn’t completely corrupted. PA MI, WA, NJ… none of that matters. Republicans will never win another state-wide election in those places because the Democrats control the counting in key counties and won’t let it happen.
That too.
D’s don’t care about quality: they care about power. I refer everyone to the Manchin debacle. They played team red by allowing them to believe Manchin was his own man, then he went and did what the team wanted anyway.
Ghost Stories For The End Of The World
@GhostStoriesEnd
In 1982 a Gladio spook called Barry Prudom robbed a bank in my hometown and went on a killing spree that led to an 18 day manhunt and his “suicide”. The guy who tracked him to his hiding place was an SAS guy called “Jungle” Eddie McGee, who also happened to be Prudom’s trainer.
https://twitter.com/GhostStoriesEnd/status/1590734946083418113
CNN coverage of the Great Noose Atrocity provides no information regarding the location or other details about the horrific twine menace.
You’d think that might be pertinent.
Shut up and join the National Conversation we must have about Systemic Racism.
What are the odds the “noose” is a piece of rope with a loop in it so it can be slipped over something to hold a door or gate open (or shut)?
Could also be coiled up telecom cables or even Roman Rings
It would be an interesting way to derail the project for decades. Just make sure a noose shows up every 3-4 days on the jobsite and shut shit down for 3 weeks.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/grips-2-scaled.jpg
Ready for 9mm night at the bullseye league. Possible for use in Limited? I am despairing a little bit that there are three screws needed for installation that require two different screwdrivers. ENGINEER BETTER, LOK!
“Arizona election results delayed until after weekend, Maricopa officials say”
This shit needs to be stopped.
Apparently, Brazil, which is a 3rd world country, can count all the votes in a national election and declare the winner in like an hour. While it takes the USA, THE first world country and leader of the free world, a fucking month to count the votes. This would be embarrassing if this nation had any sense of self respect left, but seems that is gone and we shall soon be the leader of the 4th world and we haven’t even seen the levels of corruption and dysfunction it takes to make a 4th world yet. The GA runoff vote won’t be counted until after 2024.
What’s interesting is that places like Washington State have been doing all mail-in voting for over a decade. I remember the first all mail-in election after the measure was passed into law. It wasn’t half this disorderly. And we generally had results the next day. You could always use the excuse in 2020 that it was just so darned chaotic and everything had to be done at the 11th hour because of the deadly ‘rona, but this is 2 years on now. You had 2 fucking years to figure out mail-in balloting. Hire some consultants from WA and OR to just replicate the systems they’ve been using in those states for 20+ years.
Funny, I was just talking to a co-worker in OR and he was telling me how him and all his family we’re getting ready to mail in their ballots and the dog ate his daughters. I said ‘I don’t live in OR or I’d be cheering for the dog to eat your ballot as well’.
Over 500,000 of Kathy Hochuls votes were mail in ballots pre-filled, all you had to do is sign.
This shit will continue until people are jailed or killed.
Unfortunately for the republic, some states have legalized team blue cheating. Those states tend to be the ones team blue owns and has run into the ground.
And those are now one-party states until they are violently overthrown. They’ll never lose again.
^The cheating is done right out in the open. This is it happening right here.
But ignore that. It must be abortion and Trump’s fault. And that’s rain on your leg.
“But ignore that.”
Faux Noos talking heads could not agree more.
And… the last half hour I had free today just got booked for another @$#@ meeting.
Never mind the ridiculous deadlines I have to meet.
All of mine got cancelled and then I got a reminder call that I am due to show up at a staff get together. Ooops! The rain outside is making me super sleepy…, looks like driving is out, too dangerous.
Raining here too. I opened the windows and it feels fantastic.
Oh and the deadline is on a project where the technology is something I got some brief (and irrelevant) training on six months ago and never touched it again. And the requirements aren’t complete, there are about six chefs too many in the kitchen, and I need to get something working by Tue. morning.
LOL
https://tenor.com/WyNe.gif
One more time!
https://tenor.com/WyNe.gif
Not gonna happen.
They’re good about that stuff here.
Welp, off to my next meeting.
“the requirements aren’t complete, there are about six chefs too many in the kitchen”
Sounds like every project I’ve ever worked on.
“This would be magical ”
OFFS!
OFFS!
The rot goes deep
Twitter Inc’s new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a U.S. privacy regulator and the exit of the company’s trust and safety leader.
The billionaire on his first mass call with employees said that he could not rule out bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reported, two weeks after buying it for $44 billion – a deal that credit experts say has left Twitter’s finances in a precarious position.
Earlier in the day, in his first company-wide email, Musk warned that Twitter would not be able to “survive the upcoming economic downturn” if it fails to boost subscription revenue to offset falling advertising income, three people who have seen the message told Reuters.
Yoel Roth, who has overseen Twitter’s response to combat hate speech, misinformation and spam on the service, resigned on Thursday, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
In his Twitter profile on Thursday, Roth described himself as “Former Head of Trust & Safety” at the company.
As the rats abandon ship, its seaworthiness (or lack thereof) becomes increasingly obvious.
Maybe there will be a wave of shareholder lawsuits directed at the former executives and board of directors. I don’t know if that’s a real possibility.
The old shareholders have been bought out. If anyone has a claim, it’s Musk, and I’m not sure if he does any more (unless he can show outright fraud in the purchase transaction, which is a possibility).
Everyone’s jumping ship because Elon is refusing to use it as a mouthpiece for the Biden administration and to take orders on what to censor.
That should tell you everything about where we are now.
The problem is, and maybe Elon figures it out some day. The left ruin everything they touch. So far, there are zero examples of one of those things being un-ruined. Just saying.
He needs to take the architecture of Twitter, add features like direct pay, video, etc. and launch it as something new.
“Florida ranks first in U.S. for attracting and developing skilled workforce”
Now we watch the fortunes of states like FL and TX rise and the blue states, now that all their productive citizens are fleeing, continue to devolve into 3rd world shitholes.
The shrill cries of ‘We’re all in this together!’ will get louder and louder. We need a national tax! Oh wait, we already have that. Well, some people are not paying their fair share!
Good news! After Greater Portland’s voice was finally heard, voters are passing guaranteed access to low cost healthcare. Pink ponies and unicorns weren’t on the ballot.
Leeches are pretty inexpensive.
“Pink ponies and unicorns”
Exactly that, and no one has to pay for them!
Yeah, that’s really going to work. Just like it did in CA. FL and TX must have some money left over for the poor folk of Portlandia, we’re all in this together!
Is it OK to pretty much hate everyone involved here?
The Hunters, the Landowner and the Ladder That Triggered a Wyoming Showdown
Hating everyone is par for the course around here.
Interesting article.
Oh, fuck off. I’m sympathetic somewhat to the trespassing issues, but let’s throttle it back a little on the damages.
But yes, everyone in this story sucks balls.
Im not at all sympathetic. First, of course, the government screwed up with the checkerboard design. Offset each row by half to avoid the corner issue, duh. But secondly, it is a standard common law practice that a property has access. If you own a property surrounding another, you have to provide access via a right-of-way.
As someone pointed out in comments, lots of the large private owners take advantage of the situation to get “free” land that is basically theirs to use since no one else can reach it.
I agree ROBC. I have cut a number of illegal gates open on roads leading to and even across public lands. The hunter’s ladder was a legitimate attempt to comply with the law.
The checkerboard pattern dates from the land grants leading to the building of the transcontinental railroads in the 1860’s to 1890’s.
JFC… The US can’t spend the money fast enough. And in this case you can’t even use the fiction of “US jobs”.
South Korea to Sell Arms to U.S. for Ukrainian Forces Fighting Russia
seems like a significant percentage of the worlds ammo was spent this year… Both russia and the US got from wherever they could
My question is: what is the carbon footprint of all this and why is Russia’s army not green?
It’s not as if South Korea would ever need those weapons to defend themselves against any other nearby country. 🙄
The old shareholders have been bought out.
Pretty much what I was thinking as I was typing that. And nobody’s going to sue the board because the stock price was too high.
Just like nobody complained to the SEC about the returns they were getting from Madoff.
Odds that he had an unreported relationship? Other possible, but less likely scenario is a well documented pattern of abuse of employees…
Keurig Dr Pepper CEO Resigns Over Conduct-Code Violations
How to effectively track changes in body composition
A recent study by Tinsley et al investigated methods of tracking changes in body composition in 19 subjects who were trying to gain weight.
https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-changes-in-body-composition/
We (collectively) are very fortunate that these devices exist, and we owe a debt of gratitude to the folks whose efforts have made them possible and continue to make them better and better. However, I would personally never act upon the result of an individual-level body composition estimate from these types of commercially accessible devices, and I discourage my clients from using them. Simply put, there are better ways to make inferences about an individual’s physique, performance, or health status. The simplest approach for tracking physique-related changes is to monitor changes in scale weight, while also keeping an eye on changes in clothing fit and visual appearance. If you’d like to kick things up a notch and get more quantitative data, measuring circumferences and/or skinfold thicknesses would be very useful. In the context of assessing adiposity or muscularity, these methods will offer much more utility than any of the measurement devices commonly found in gyms, households, or healthcare facilities.
Yup. Fucking the help would be my guess.
who is fucking the help? And is the help willing?
Dr Pepper!
so misunderstood
Trump now goes after Glenn Youngkin
What is happening.
the hair lost it?
Is he losing it? Or is this fake news?
Either way, seems like a bad strategy.
Trump is imploding?
👆
His ego is a liability.
Trump is really losing me this week.
Even though Republicans should probably be focused on election oddities and Walker, all they’re doing right now is fighting over Desantis v Trump.
Walker raised $3MM already. I think there is plenty of focus on him.
Soros probably has that much lying around in one of his mistresses’ lingerie drawers.
He’s replaying his 2016 act because he will have primary opponents for 2024.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S., according to a company statement posted on Twitter. Bankman-Fried has also stepped down as CEO and has been replaced by John J. Ray III, though the outgoing chief will stay on to assist with the transition.
Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried’s crypto trading firm, and approximately 130 additional affiliated companies are part of the voluntary proceedings.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/sam-bankman-frieds-cryptocurrency-exchange-ftx-files-for-bankruptcy.html
it was inevitable I suppose
Anthony Scaramucci, the founder of SkyBridge Capital and short-time Trump communications director, flew to the Bahamas this week to help Bankman-Fried as an investor and friend. When he got there, he says, it appeared beyond the point of a simple liquidity rescue. He said he didn’t see evidence of this mishandling when he and other investors first screened FTX as a potential business partner.
“Duped I guess is the right word, but I am very disappointed because I do like Sam,” Scaramucci said on CNBC’s Squawk Box Friday morning. “I don’t know what happened because I was not an insider at FTX.”
Scaramucci is such an ass.
For the record, Sam Bankman-Fried did not kill himself.
Gardenburgers were delicious until they changed the recipe/moved production/sold out.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said it was watching Twitter with “deep concern” after the three privacy and compliance officers quit. These resignations potentially put Twitter at risk of violating regulatory orders.
Musk attorney Alex Spiro told some employees in an email late on Thursday that Twitter would remain in compliance.
“We spoke to the FTC today about our continuing obligations and have a constructive ongoing dialogue,” Spiro wrote.
He stated that only Twitter, not individual employees, could be held liable against the orders.
“I understand that there have been employees at Twitter who do not even work on the FTC matter commenting that they could (go) to jail if we were not in compliance – that is simply not how this works,” he wrote.
Apparently intelligence has not been a high priority in Twatter’s past hiring practices.
Happy Veteran’s Day to all. This series is 40 years old and holds up very well, especially that some leaders are looking for major state on major state war.
The universal and timeless first step on making a veteran.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_G2u1RrLOk
What makes a military professional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdwsfTy_haM
It’s been 46 years since I walked away but some of the scenes brought back some memories and a little dust in my eyes.
Thanks, dbleagle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDs63A2TwMI
Trust the experts, peasant!
They want you dead, morons.
None of those things are true.
Breathtaking, really. Makes the food pyramid look almost sane.
JFC
Gotta do something with all that subsidized corn syrup.
Assuming “SNAP” means food stamps, the reason you can’t buy that rotisserie is because you can’t buy anything hot. You can buy one from the meat aisle and cook it yourself, though. It has nothing to do with “health”.
That’s dumb.
The long list of credentials on a person who has totally sold their soul for a buck.
https://nutrition.tufts.edu/profile/faculty/dariush-mozaffarian
TikTok is a CCP PsyOps weapon. It is used to dumb down our kids and to do propaganda for team blue because team blue is doing the CCP’s dirty work. But they keep telling me that it is the Russians influencing our elections. Young single women are all getting their marching orders from TikTok.
There is a Tom turkey pecking violently on my window, looking at me. I didn’t throw out any corn this morning because of the ice on the patio. He seriously is trying to get my attention, I took his picture but he’s waiting. He is just standing there, eyeballing me with an evil eye. This is not the first time but he is way more concentrating this morning. His partner isn’t so aggressive, I may need to start packing some heat when I go out.
I may need to start packing some heat when I go out.
Heat would help with the ice situation.
Must be a democrat pissed you ain’t giving it the free shit it expects?
I guess he doesn’t have a calendar.
He’s cold! You should invite him in. Maybe into the oven?
Oh, just shoot him already.
Elections are over. It’s OK to talk about crime now.
Eric Adams now says ‘fears’ of crime are real, Democrats must deal with it
No better example of getting pissed on while being told its just rain
Most mornings I wake up with a song running through my head. Sometimes I wonder just where the fuck they come from.
Like this morning.
WTAF?
I love that one. And this when he was Deltron3030.
And the same song, but with live accompaniment: Deltron 3030 – Positive Contact (Live on KEXP)
Shall I hit back with a bit of Japanese American style punk.
MONGOL800 / 小さな恋のうた
I used to. Sometimes still do, but not every day anymore. I believe the last one was Rock the Boat by Hues Corporation. A song I haven’t heard in probably 20 years. Brains are weird.
Great song, though.
Definitely, I ended up listening to it about 5 times on repeat.
Good. I’m not alone. Rarely it’ll be a song I heard the night before. More often than not it’s something random I haven’t heard in days/weeks/months. Sometimes it’s the same song for a few days in a row. Weird.
I want fake meat.
Why?
https://www.tantusinc.com/collections/dildos
It’s good that you’re not transphobic.
Onterrio Smith, call your office!
Office is closed today 😁!
Lazy americans never working
*Flings wrench at Pie*
Clamoring!
By Thursday morning, conservatives were clamoring to raise the voting age, although they couldn’t seem to agree on what the new age should be: there were arguments for 21, 25, 30, or simply until voters had gotten “a lil life experience.”
The demand is, of course, as ridiculous as it is hypocritical. There is no talk of also raising the age for military enlistment or, say, consent. Instead, it shows that the right is rushing to preserve its power over Gen Z rather than appealing to them through legislation.
But while it’s easy to poke fun at Republicans, a call to raise the voting age is still a call to violate voter rights.
“The fact that there are republicans calling to raise the voting age to 21 because Gen-Z showed up in HEAVY Democratic numbers last night is both laughable and terrifying,” tweeted Olivia Julianna, from the nonprofit Gen-Z for Change.
The New Republic; serious journalism for serious people.
Democrats did better than expected at least in part because they got out the vote among the useful idiots.
/looks at the calls to lower the voting age to 16
Amendment XXVI ratified 01Jul1971 sets the voting age at 18. Short of a constitutional convention it ain’t going up. I’d rather see the age to purchase a firearm, smoke, and drink come down to 18.
Missouri had a ballot initiative asking if permission was granted to particiate in a constitutional convention. It was a resounding NO. I’m wondering how many voters knew what that actually meant.
Permission? American liberty is truly dead
I don’t know who makes the decision to participate in a contitutional convention. The people? The legislature? The governor? The courts? No clue.
To me, it makes sense to ask the people to allow whoever to get the ball rolling on participation.
Ya I misread…I was thinking for somereason ot was the state asking the FedGov to allow it. Moar coffee
The demand is, of course, as ridiculous as it is hypocritical.
Dems don’t want 18 year old’s to buy guns but they want 16 year old’s to vote…
I’ve never heard of someone seriously proposing to raise the voting age.
Most mornings I wake up with a song running through my head.
I woke up yesterday with what I can only describe as circus music in my head. Like what they play as the trapeze artists are performing.
Democrats did better than expected at least in part because they got out the vote among the useful idiots.
18 – 30 year olds worry about abortion.
The damned schools of education are training teachers to turn children into activists for the DNC.
I’ve even noticed it at my daughter’s private school. It’s part of why I’m pulling her out of there and sending her somewhere else.
“This a clear admission of Government shutdown of our 1st Amendment right to assemble and speak.
They’re practically bragging about shaking down the venue owners.
We’ve done 7 shows across America, and there hasn’t been a single instance of violence.”
https://twitter.com/JoshDenny/status/1591090783058558981
Ah…online intelligence. Lol
Ah damn.
Time to go smash some watermelons in the Sky.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gallagher-dead-at-76/
1. Don’t announce layoffs while people are preparing their self-assessments.
2. Don’t announce that layoff will be coming, but won’t give more information until after Thanksgiving.
3. Saying “we cannot just ride out this storm, we must navigate through it” makes you sound like a complete douche.
Don’t announce that layoff will be coming, but won’t give more information until after Thanksgiving.
Nice. Just in time for Christmas.
Why the layoffs? I thought chip demand is through the roof.
Is, yes. Will be in 2023? The prediction is no.
Every company I am talking to is doing at least 20% reductions. Some in the finance sector are doing 30%
It’s nice to see Trump imploding this week. It needs to be gotten out of the way well before the campaign begins for 24. While he did steer the Repubs in a better direction, it was a really low bar to move the party away from Bush Jr and Mittens. He was good on a handful of issues which was enough to clear another very low bar of best Pres in my lifetime. Hopefully his latest weird outbursts against Youngkin and DeSantis help ostracize him further. It really doesn’t matter how shitty the next two years are as a result of dembass Dem policies, there is no way he wins in 24 if he mounts a campaign.
We really won’t know what’s gonna happen as 2 years is a long time but I personally hope someone like Desantis or Youngkin moves ahead. Much less embarrassing.
It’s unclear how I’ve benefited with Youngkin as gov in VA. Doesn’t really seem any better than when the Dems had the governorship here. I certainly wouldn’t vote him for President. Might as well vote for Romney or Biden.
Youngkin strikes me as much closer to the Mittens/Bush establishment than DeSantis does. I wouldn’t be jumping for joy if he was the nominee. DeSanits is absolutely not a libertarian, but I would vote for him in a second. I’d vastly prefer either of those to President Newsom or Harris, which is what happens if Trump runs again.
Two years is an eternity in politics, but one thing I would bet my house on is that Trump does not increase his popularity in the next years. It is utterly and completely baked in. It will only decrease, especially when he is busy making weird racist comments bout other Repubs. Joe Biden could be literally drooling on stage and soiling himself and he would prevail against Trump. The Fetterman win just reiterated the point that Dem voters will pull for brain damaged rather than cross over. It’s all about getting enough independents to beat the margin of fortification and that won’t happen with TDog.
Worry is he does have a rabid core of followers that would rather burn down the Republican party (not inherently bad) and will usher in Newsome or worse, Kahmahlah
I think Gavin is actually worse than Kamala but yeah.
Trump needs to exit stage left and never come back.
I’m at this point too. He shook things up and started something good. Now there are other people on board who can keep that going, but he still wants to be the center of attention.
This is going to hurt you a lot more than it’s going to hurt me
In the early months of the pandemic, Facebook only grew bigger and more central to our lives. With lockdowns spreading, countless people began shopping, socializing and working on Facebook and other online platforms. As CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in March 2020, usage was so high that the company was “just trying to keep the lights on.”
Against that backdrop, Zuckerberg’s company went on a remarkable hiring spree. Facebook, which later rebranded as Meta, went from 48,268 staffers in March 2020 to more than 87,000 as of September of this year. In other words, it hired another Facebook’s worth of staff. And it looked like the company would only keep hiring to support its ambitious plans to build a future version of the internet called the metaverse.
On Wednesday, however, Zuckerberg reversed course and laid off more than 11,000 employees, marking the most significant cuts in the company’s history. In a memo to staff, Zuckerberg coughed up some of the hardest words in the English language. “I got this wrong,” he wrote, “and I take responsibility for that.”
I have never had I job which I expected would last forever.
Yeah, but you aren’t on the fight side of history like all those leftist employees. They thought they could fix tech jobs like it was an election, lol.
That was supposed to be ‘right’.
It’s nice to see Trump imploding this week.
At this point, I have no idea how much of his “influence is legitimately organic and how is because the media simply will not shut the fuck up about him.
This is just the latest in the big bunch of BS that is the Trump hate. Trump had exactly jackshit to do with the GOP fuckup. Maybe blame someone who is still an active member of the GOP, like, I dunno, Turtlehead? Him and Fox News, bunch of pussies.
There were a number of reasons that Team Red underperformed in this election, but Trump was absofuckinglutely one of them. He backed Oz and Walker in two of the most important races and one lost and one is about to lose. “Young-Kin. Interesting – sounds Chinese.” That’s not the media, that’s from his own mouth. That kind of shit is exactly the reason he will never win another election in his life. If he does really run again (and I’m on record saying he likely will drop out before primaries begin) he will get trounced by whoever the Dems put up. And then he can moan for the rest of his life about the stolen elections.
That’s the rabidness I speak of. You’ve raised him to be your diety that can do no wrong
I blame him for the Oz endorsement.
Trump had exactly jackshit to do with the GOP fuckup.
He went to a lot of campaign events and said a lot of stupid things. If the dumb bastard would focus on the future instead of whining about the past it would do a world of good.
This is one of many reasons to avoid creating ads by AI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/kfc-apologizes-after-kristallnacht-promotion-in-germany.html